Oakdale is a semi-rural suburb or district in Wollondilly Shire in Sydney's southwest, sitting about 86 km south-west of the CBD on the rural fringe where the metropolitan area meets the Burragorang valley country. At the 2021 census it had 2,028 residents. It presents as a growing family-oriented rural township clustered around Burragorang Road, grouped by the local tourism body with Belimbla Park, The Oaks, Nattai, Burragorang and Yerranderie as scenic Wollondilly countryside worth exploring (Visit Wollondilly). Growth trackers describe it as a quiet acreage-and-bush suburb where new family homes are filling former rural lots on the Sydney fringe (AreaSearch).
At a Glance
| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Region | Wollondilly |
| Council (LGA) | Wollondilly Shire |
| Postcode | 2570 |
| Distance to Sydney CBD | Oakdale is about 86 km south-west of the Sydney CBD by road… |
| Median house price | ~$1.0–1.1M: CoreLogic via YIP put the Oakdale median house price at $1,025,000 (46 house sales in the past 12 months, annual capital growth −5.09%), while view.com.au listed the median house sale price at $1,100,000 (mid-2026) |
| Typical rent | ~$730/week median house rent, with a gross rental yield of about 3.13% for houses |
| Price growth | −5.09% annual median growth ; OnTheHouse records +50.8% growth in median house value over the 5 years to 30 June 2026 |
Transport
Oakdale has no railway station — the nearest stations (Campbelltown/Macarthur on the T8 line, or Picton on the Southern Highlands line) are all a long drive or bus trip away. Public transport is bus-based and limited: an infrequent loop service, listed on trip planners as route 40, links Oakdale with Belimbla Park, The Oaks and Camden, where connections to the wider Sydney bus and rail network are made (Transit App). Most local travel is by private car along Burragorang Road and Camden's Northern Road corridor.
Schools
Oakdale Public School — NSW government primary school on Burragorang Road, Oakdale 2570 (the suburb's only school). Oakdale has no secondary school in the suburb or in its immediate neighbouring localities; local secondary students travel to high schools in Camden, Picton or Campbelltown.
Shopping & Amenities
Oakdale's village services are small and clustered along Burragorang Road. They include the Oakdale Workers Club, a local community club about 700 m from the school, and the Oakdale Convenience and Bottle Shop, a supermarket-and-convenience-store operation (Facebook). An Australian stores directory lists a small number of shops and services in the village (AussieStoresOnline). For major shopping and services, residents drive to Camden and its larger town-centre retail.
Parks & Outdoors
Oakdale is a semi-rural district of farmland, bush blocks and large residential lots at 430 m elevation, with the Blue Mountains National Park beginning on its northern boundary and the Nattai/Burragorang valley country to the west. Visit Wollondilly promotes the surrounding Oakdale–Belimbla Park–The Oaks–Nattai area as scenic countryside for drives, bushland walks and wineries and cellar doors along the Burragorang Road corridor (Visit Wollondilly).
Property Market
The median house price in Oakdale was around ~$1.0–1.1M: CoreLogic via YIP put the Oakdale median house price at $1,025,000 (46 house sales in the past 12 months, annual capital growth −5.09%), while view.com.au listed the median house sale price at $1,100,000 (mid-2026). See our full Sydney property price map for how the suburb compares across the city. Trackers cluster Oakdale's house median around $1.0–1.1M but differ on trend direction — YIP/CoreLogic shows −5.09% annual growth while OnTheHouse records strong 5-year appreciation (+50.8% to June 2026) — reflecting the thin, acreage-heavy sales base typical of a semi-rural fringe suburb. An older cached realestate.com.au page still shows a $740,000 median figure that predates the recent rural-price surge and should be ignored. Units are negligible in Oakdale ; most stock is houses and rural residential lots.
New Developments
Oakdale's growth is incremental rather than masterplanned: AreaSearch records 89 development applications and 106 new addresses in 'The Oaks – Oakdale' since the 2021 Census, with no separate large release area (AreaSearch). The Oakdale Residential Village at 1458 Burragorang Road — a residential estate of 1–3 bedroom modular homes developed with Wollondilly Shire Council, with an open day held in June 2024 — is the suburb's most tangible recent project (Oakdale Residential Village). At shire level, Wollondilly's Growth Management Strategy forecasts the whole LGA climbing from roughly 46,000 residents to about 80,000 by 2026 and beyond 130,000 by 2036 — with Oakdale among the smaller townships expected to share in that spread of growth, though the biggest precincts are Wilton and Appin (Wollondilly Health Needs Assessment).
Jobs & Local Economy
Local employment in Oakdale is small-scale — the village's club, convenience store and other local businesses, plus Oakdale Public School, are the main in-suburb employers (Mapcarta; Facebook; Oakdale Public School). Wollondilly's economy is otherwise rural (agriculture, grazing, market gardens) with a coal-mining industry, and most working residents of the shire's dispersed townships — Oakdale included — commute to the larger service and employment hubs of Camden, Picton, Campbelltown and greater Macarthur (Wollondilly Health Needs Assessment).
Nearby Suburbs
Orangeville, Belimbla Park, Mowbray Park, Nattai
Sources & method
Researched 5 September 2026 from named public sources — census and government records, transport authorities, council and planning documents — plus published sales data. Where sources disagree on a figure, the guide says so rather than picking one.
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